Particle photon battery pack

In order to allow my photon to be stand-alone and not require a power cable I bought the accompanying power shield. This is a lithium battery you can connect to your photon to give it it's own power source.

Here's a little guide to using  it:

In the pack you get a shield to attach your photon to, a battery and 2 header strips.

Plug the battery into the shield. It will only fit one way round.

Plug a powered USB cable into the shield. The red LED shows it is receiving power. The LED next to the battery connector will be blue if the battery is currently charging and will change to red when fully charged.

The photon is then placed over the power shield with the USB connector on the opposite end to the battery connector

 

If you plug the photon directly into the power shield then the photon board does not sit evenly and could potentially damage the components below. This is why we have the header strips.

Plug the header strips into the photon pins and then plug it into the power shield. You can now see the boards are cleanly separated.

However I found that the holes in the power shield are too large to provide connections with the header pins unless you push the photon to one side to make the legs slant into the holes. This means no power is provided to the photon. For this reason I will leave out the header strips while developing my project and solder the header strips to the power shield once I am happy with everything.